“It’s true, today we had a lot of waste,” regretted Lyon striker Kadidiatou Diani after OL’s victory over the Turkish club Galatasaray (3-0), at the end of a match on the first day of the Champions League during which she scored two headed goals. Vanessa Gilles made it 2-0, also with a header, during a match in which Olympique Lyonnais shot 41 times for only 14 attempts on target.
“Finishing is something we try to work on to improve day by day. There was enough waste but we will retain the three goals and the victory, which is the most important. We will try to do better in the next meetings,” said the French international.
A clean sheet to start
“It’s not easy to face rather compact opponents, with low blocks. We are trying to divert this game. It’s not easy but we did it quite well,” she said. She is reinforced in this feeling by her coach, Joe Montemurro, who noted “the best performance achieved so far” by his team.
“This is the best start we could have hoped for. We could have been more clinical but we created a lot and that’s probably the most important thing, putting ourselves in good positions,” analyzed the Australian technician.
But OL also managed to keep their clean sheet even if the opponent was not too fierce. “It’s good to have started with a clean sheet even if we know we have to do better offensively by scoring a lot more goals compared to the number of chances we created. We have to be more efficient but it remains a good performance and we must continue like this,” said Chilean goalkeeper Christiane Endler.
